Archive for November, 2009
MxPx Holiday Album
Nov 25th
MxPx is jumping on the holiday-music gravy train.
The pop-punk act wraps up a decade’s worth of Christmas tunes handed out to its fan club for its Punk Rawk Christmas, due out Dec. 1 from Rock City Recording Company. Most of the songs are originals, but the outfit also taps into the traditional bucket to pad the track listing.
Punk Rawk Christmas’ track listing is:
Punk Rawk Christmas
Christmas Day
Christmas Only Comes Once a Year
Coming Home for Christmas
You’re the One I Miss (This Christmas)
Christmas Party
Christmas Night of the Living Dead
So This is Christmas?
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Gibson Launches New Angus Young Signature SG Line
Nov 13th
The Gibson Custom Shop is now offering its reproduction of one of the world’s most renowned SGs in the form of the Angus Young SG, a Limited Edition that captures the tone, look, and feel of this rare specimen among a classic breed, but which updates this legendary guitar with custom modifications requested by Angus himself.
Angus Young acquired his 1968 SG Standard in 1970, and has used it on all major AC/DC recordings and many tours since the band’s inception in 1973. Young’s ’68 SG is known to be a superb example of this model, with an unusually slim neck, pickups that blend just the right proportions of power and sweetness, and a resonant, vocal tone that represents the best of the SG formula. Listen closely to any classic AC/DC tune, and the tone is huge, but not filthy or fizzy.
Six Feet Under Unveil Tracklisting for Graveyard Classic 3
Nov 6th
Tampa, FL’s kings of groove laden death metal Six Feet Under will return with their third installment of the band’s cover series, Graveyard Classics 3, due out on Metal Blade Records January 19, 2010. Graveyard Classics 3 was recorded at D.O.I. Digital Audio in Tampa, FL, was mixed at Audiohammer Studios by Mark Lewis, and was produced by Chris Barnes.
Here’s what the godfather of gore and death Chris Barnes has to say about the band’s latest chapter in the Graveyard Classics chain:
“We went about picking the tracks for this installment of Graveyard Classics by really just trying to search out songs from early on in our musical upbringing, as well as tracks from when we were just fans of heavy music, before we started playing in a band. Once again choosing songs that have really stuck with us over the years, also choosing the songs that we felt would sound interesting when played in the SFU ‘death groove’ style.
European Release of Slash’s Solo Album to Feature Fergie, Ozzy, Chris Cornell and more
Nov 3rd
Roadrunner records has just announced the signing of Velvet Revolver/ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash for the forthcoming European release of his debut solo album, Slash.
Slash will be released in spring of 2010 as a deluxe “fan pack,” in which the album will be bundled together with a highly collectible special issue of Future Publishing’s Classic Rock magazine dedicated to Slash’s career.
Slash will release a two-track CD single in Japan on November 11 containing the song “Sahara” (featuring singer Koshi Inaba of the Japanese hard rock duo B’Z) and a version of the GN’R classic “Paradise City” (featuring Cypress Hill and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas).
“Sahara” is expected to appear on Slash’s forthcoming solo album. According to the guitarist, “the [record] is in its mixing stage and the mixes to this point sound great. We have recorded 18 songs, with one more I want to track.” He added, “the record is still slated for a February/March release.”
